Passing Through the Fire: Conscious Imagination and Thinking

By D. C. Kerns

The ideas presented within these pages can help the reader focus on improving self and community through imagination and thinking. There is hope for change when the inspiration comes from within. When it comes to freedom of thought, it is easier to change one mind at a time than entire cultures. As long as there are individuals who express optimism for such change, there is hope for all of us. The topics cover common themes that people and society come across while passing through the fire of daily life. These themes are about all of us. They are about time, space, matter, spirit, humanism, and universalism. They attempt to explain by seeding the complex with the simple. There are no endings, only beginnings in awareness when its purpose is to unify consciousness on Earth with universal life. When this occurs rightly, our perceptions will move us into that next stage of being: universal inclusiveness and its eternal expansion.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press
• Release date: Jul 13, 2011
• ISBN: 9781452535975

D. C. Kerns

D. C. Kerns has been a blue-collar worker by trade and is now a grateful retiree. Over the decades, as an avid thinker for the betterment of humanity, he has been a student and seeker of the hidden side of persons, places, and things. In his retirement, he enjoys the challenge of creating intricate stained-glass panels for others. He and his life partner, Kathy, live in Edmonds, Washington.

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To the Universal Spirit that Lights

The Flame of Life

To Life expressing itself as Consciousness

In Time, Space, Matter, Spirit, and Fire

To the Heart that listens in Silence

In you I will remain

Forever a Flame lit bright as the Sun that is in me

For in the end your Heart will be

All I See

Contents

Preface

The Unfettered Reflection

Conversation with the Living

The First Light

Persons, Places and Things

How We Create

What Kind of Image Do We Want to Become?

What Kind of House Do We Live In and Upon?

Through the Light of the Mind, We See our Lives

Rising and Setting

Work for the Greater Good

Family Equals Politics and Money

Infrastructure of the Mind, Emotions and Body

The Future is in Time

A Heart of Clay Becoming a Heart of Fire

Thinking in the Always is to be Part of its Awareness

Life Does Not Think Us: We Think Life!

The Shifting Standards for Change

A Wider Vision for the Right Use of Money

Life is an Education of Sorts!

The World in its Many Different Ways

The Human Ways of Life

Dimensions of Being

The Burning Flow of the Ethereal River

A Set of Feelings

The Economy of Life

Association through Knowledge

When We Know Ourselves, We are Total and Natural

Politics, Envy, Money, War and Redemption

A Constant State of Being Intimate

To Blend is to Create the Story of Life

Lightness of Being

The Sacred Matters of Life

A Combination of Circumstances

What We See, Think, and Come to Know

Thoughts are Transcendent

A Moment of Cosmic Arousal

The Thinking and Feeling Dimensions

The Space In-Between

The Essence of Relationships

The Twofold Perspective

The Constitution of Comfort

In a Ray of Light

The Seasonal Silence of Time and Place

Clouds of Colors Patterned in the Stars

The Silence of Clarity in the Gray Areas of Living

Making Connections

Smoothing Away the Friction

The Politics of Living

Looking Through the Glass

The Inner Journey

The Painting of Contentment

The Use of Time

The Cleavages of Life

Life is Only What We Accept it to Be

Memories

Large versus Small

A State of Loyalty

The Use of Information

History’s Innumerable Variations

The Face of Depression

Living in Patience

Commitment

Consequences of Age and Consciousness

Purposeful Being

Intimidation

Transition

Interaction

Involvement

Acknowledgement

Synchronicity

Togetherness

Growth without Suffering

Re-Entry

Spirit: a Metaphor for Sustainability

Transformation in Infinity

Shifting Images of Time and Space

Our Right Humanistic Ways

Ideals and Reality

Imitative Behavior

Identification

Adaptability and Contentment

Perfection

Justification of Belief

Alone and Together

Realization of Thoughts

The Sun, the Earth and Everything

Recall

Truth of Consequence

Forgiveness

Spiritualism, Science, and Hypocrisy

The One Body

Futurism

Indifference

Permanence

The Emotional World

Silence

Patterns of Being

Irritability

The Never Ending Process

Systemic Consciousness

Explanation of things

Self-Identification

A Guide to Being

A View through Heaven’s Door

The Mystery of Being Human

You Cannot Go Back Home, Only Visit

Being True to the Self

Forgotten Memories

Self-Security

The Physical Body: The Receptacle for Light

The United States of Now

See Things as They Are

The Reflection of the Self

The Human Species - Things as They Are

The Sum of Human Life

The Emulator

The New and Last Moments

The Wise Use of Love

The Struggle for Conscious Identity

Conversion of the Heart

Conscious Words for an Inner Life

The Mixing of Human Characteristics

Looking out the Window

The Art of Altruistic Living

The Declaration of Leadership

Whatever Has Been, Be Grateful

A Sense of Serenity with What Is

The Universe and its Dual Relations

Live and Let Live

The Politics of Being

Fallen Leaves

Infusion of Consciousness

Imagining the Unity of All Things

The Benevolent and Malevolent Forces of the Imagination

Beauty and Ugliness, Truth and Error

Energy, Force and Consciousness

We Cannot Get Where We are Going by Talking

The Commonality Factor

Think ‘Everything is OK’

The Most Minutely Exquisite Images

The Conundrum of What Is

The Futuristic Journey of Hope and Enthusiasm

The Art of Thoughtful Wishing

The Translucency of Physical Life

The Movement of Energetic Consciousness

Obsessive Entertainment

The Art of What Is

Don’t Look Back

Waves of Light

The Rising and Setting of the Self

In Praise of the Moment

The Stamping of Life

Masking the Mask, Twisting & Tweaking What Is

The Originator of Space, Air, Fire, Water, and Earth

Imagine How It Will Be

The Power of Coercion

A Wide, Wide Look at Life

Critical Thinking

Mother, Why Did I Do This?

A New Time

The Beautiful Stuff about Us

Across the Divide

Long Ago and Now

Possibilities

The End of Physical Being

Decisions Made

Accepting What Is

I just do not know!

The Final Illusion

The Speed of Light and Life

The End of Separation

Let It Be

How We Travel In Space

The Loneliness of Knowing

In Memory’s Light

The Inevitability of Life

Reconstituting Our Makeup

Building a Better Life

Words of Silence

Life as a Practice

The Finality of Conflict

The End Justifies the Means

Experience Powers Awareness

The Silence of Solitude

International Thinking

The Kernel: Self-Mastery

The Nature of Material Power

The History of Images

Initiatory Consciousness

Earthly Humanism

Cleansing Life’s Atmosphere

Automatic Motion

Natural Transparency

The Flow of Life, Space and Causation

The Beginning

The Human Seed

Letting It Go

The Learning Curve

The Forces of Politics

Getting It Right

Three-Form Existence

Different Directions

The Spirit of Minuteness

The Truth about Everything

The Earth Leads to Everything Else

Simplicity: the Art of Living

Free-Flow Interchanges (Ballroom in the Sky)

The Room (Womb) at the End

Withering of the Bloom

E = energy = me the force, which = I AM

The Ladder of Progression

Levels of Reality

The Actuality of Events

Imperfect Perfection

One Page, One Life, and One Story at a Time

The Song of Life

The Busyness of Doing

Useful Information

The Other Half of Time, Person and Place

Summation

Precious:

Epilogue

Expressions for Essence:

All-Embracing Care, Awareness, Being, Book of Life, Burning Flow, Cause, Clarity, Compassion, Consciousness, Contemplative Solitude, Cosmic Awareness, Cosmic Consciousness, Cosmic Light, Creative Power, Creator, Divine, Energy of Time, Essence, Eternal, Event Light, Fire, Fire of Creation, First Cause, First Light, First Principle, Flame, Formless, Freedom, Friendship, Gratitude, Great Circle, Harmony, Heaven, Higher Self, I AM, Imagination, Immeasurable, Immortality, Infinite, Infinite Time, Infinite Circle and Life and Fire, Innateness, Inner Self, Innocence, Intelligence, Intelligent Heart, Intuition, Inviolable, Invisible, Invisible Intelligence, Joy, Kindred Kind, Law of Harmony, Lightness of Being, Limitless Power, Love, Maker, Mystery, One Reality, One Source, One Totality, Origin, Peace, Perfection, Permanency, Pure Consciousness, Rarified Light, Real, Sacred, Self, Serene, Single Eye, Singular, Silence, Soul, Still Small Voice, Sum of Creation, Timeless Now, True Being, True Power, Truth, Unity, Universality, Universal Justice, Universal Love, Voice of Silence, and Wisdom

Preface

The thoughts expressed in this writing originate from my own awareness and those who have had an impact on me. Each topic presented in Passing through the Fire builds on and supports the other themes. These thoughts are not true or false regarding any person, idea or thing. Rather, they are to stimulate individual imagination and thinking that can lift one above negativity in everyday living. It is up to the reader to determine if these ideas have merit. Anyone is free to take from these words as long as he/she treats these thoughts kindly, either in acceptance or in rejection.

Everything in the physical universe consists of a gathering process, whether minerals, plants, animals, humans, planets, solar systems or galaxies. This mass that encompasses everything is termed Essence. As humans, we give this Essence various names and forms, which constitute Consciousness. From a physical view, Consciousness is dependent on mind to arrange and produce the view screen onto which the mind records the images. Thus, we have the reality of the human experience: the Invisible becoming visible. Beyond this visibility, we have the Invisible pure quantum state, energy and force or Fire by friction that fuels the totality of time, space and causation. From a single particle of Light, this mass of Invisible Intelligence is constantly in a state of splitting and creating in a furnace of Fire, or Pure Consciousness. As such, there is no beginning or ending, only a gathering of awareness.

No matter what one writes, it will never fully explain our beginnings or endings for that is an ongoing process. The patterns and frictions from life guide and direct each of us through our personal journey. When we are no longer asleep to the ways of the world, we can see the Commonality of each thing and its interconnection with all other things. Through this connection, we come to the place of our own originality. This space forever was, is, and will always be in the Infinite Circle of Life and Fire.

Therefore, to understand the things unknown to us we must peer into the vastness of our individual universe. When we can do this without judgment as to persons, places and things, we will see the manifested patterns of life in, around and everywhere. When we look into the fossil preservations of nature, we gain an understanding of our origin in nature. When we use love and understanding regarding the complexity of man/woman, we find ourselves living and moving with the creation of a wondrous body. This body houses our personal universe and its similarities with nature: the rivers / blood veins, the skin / soil, as well as the atoms, molecules, stars, and galaxies that light up our vision. This understanding is always moving us forward into the Perfect expressions of ourselves beyond earth, air, water and fire and into the One Source from which we all originate.

Every sentient being on this blue-green world, which we call our home, is only here on a short visit: to gather, to learn and to understand its workings in such a way that in the end we are more intelligent or not. The choices made usually dictate the closing stages and end outlook. Each of us is alone in this releasing process. It is my hope that these pages will bring a better understanding to the journey. As I am still passing through the Fire, I am still discharging old patterns and fashioning new ones. Through understanding, I have come to see the things of the past as they are, the past. When we leave this temple-earth and name-body, we will never remember them quite the same way. Therefore, we should honor, respect and surrender back to our earth home the elements it so generously loaned to us. If we can do this in a forgiving way, the Inner Self will be watching, directing, and sheltering us in our future that is to be. We live through Joy and sorrow, and when we come to know this, we will let go of the world rightly. To do this each of us must create our own unique system of believing and imagining.

Eternity is. In its existence all that happens in space, time, energy and matter disappears and returns to Pure Consciousness: Passing through the Fire.

The Unfettered Reflection

We can never return to the home we left behind! Those former times are only points of reference that give meaning for what we have become. Our life history makes available signals that point us toward future opportunities built on the substance and essence of what was before. Regardless of our nature, each of us stands alone in the judging of our destiny. When the light of life glows dim at the twilight of our time, our hearts will fill with overwhelming gratitude for those memories, and in the Dawn of our New Beginning, we will slowly awaken to a newer and better creation.

The Spirit of life awakens to feel, hope, and dream in the river of Silence and Time. Wisdom of the heart and mind is the Source, the wellspring from which every word and action proceeds. Shaped by desire and recurring awareness, the vast dark sleeping earth and all its rivers, plains, mountains, forests, oceans, plant and animal life awaken from the endless rounds of time. The newness of nature, with its intricate patterns, passes through the senses with fragrant mysterious secrets. From the brown soil, new life and all its numerous familiarities of the senses come into focus from the ancient web of memory.

Our mission begins in this world and we amend it in the next. Our True Power exists when we choose love and kindness over hate and cruelty. The true nature of earth can exist only when discord and tyranny are no longer a part of human consciousness. When we look into the mirror of the Inner Self, we see the face of matter and Spirit. Each came out of the fire of creation. More radiant than fire, more beautiful than the lilies of the field, purer than light, is the Self. The outer world flowers with unfettered reflection when we are at peace with the Inner Self. In the clear crisp blue sky, a baptism of amber light reflects off silvery gray clouds sailing on the breath of life. Floating shadows of light and moisture ripple over the body of earth. New vistas open, new dreams and visions appear. In our doings, we think we have broken the bounds and liberated ourselves only to realize that we have given up an old belief for a new one and forsaken one dream for a wider one.

While on this earth, each of us stands alone in the swarm of human knowledge, an atom in the cosmic chain of events and circumstances. Imbued with an atmosphere of collected noise, we are Everlasting, fixed and unchanged, no matter how we live and die. We visit the million sights, see the endless faces, read mountains of books and data, only to become weary from what we know and see. To assuage ourselves, we strive to hold the earth and its vast swarming riddle in our hands, as we might hold a coin of gold. Yet, we are nothing if we are not mindful of its everlasting unfoldment. We breathe in the certainty of our immortality, drive out and banish confusion when we are aware! Let us embrace the living earth as we do a loved one, unfettered, for there are no limits or restrictions on what love can do.

When we are free from our fears of self-idealized conceptions, the fragrant mysteries of the earth unfold as a flower does in the morning sun.

Conversation with the Living

Fire, the base, the glowing ember of imagination, is the central point from which all of us have our beginning. From the mind’s internal eye, the beginning of life always meets the end in a spiraling awakening. Fire, the principle of heat and light, is the source of all life. Without it, we would be a blank slate. All of the elements that make up the periodic law blend and blaze until the essential elements separate and are withheld at the end, where they subordinate to a greater cause, the system that arranges the classification. This system of cause coordinates these elements according to their atomic number. Likewise, this journal (or conversation) of the human imagination is inherent and latent, manifesting and advancing through a combination of elements in such a way that there is no measurable way for them to occupy or occur in space as to past or future. When we walk out through a sea grass dune that meets the ocean and watch the waves roll in and out, or peer into the vastness of the night sky at the endless points of light, we cannot help but stand and wonder. Are we standing within ourselves?

Most of us, when we think of fire or get too close to its heat, cringe from the thought of pain. This type of fire is the destructive form seen through the workings of nature. The atomic and electrical attributes of fire, if not handled properly, can also be very destructive. However, they are beneficial when controlled wisely. For example, the heat and light of the sun nurture our lives through the workings of the earth from which we get our sustenance. Sentient lives, and all types of animals, know when it is time to move out of the sun into the shade. The fusion of the sun allows us to see, and when we look at a color x-ray of the eye, it bears a resemblance to the sun. In unison with the cosmos, we are constantly generating, assimilating and radiating the elements of fire. Sadly, we use the periodic law of the elements that make up our world to create harmful products. In time, due to friction, these unwise choices will pass because the fire of mind and the fire of matter are always repelling one another. This will allow us to see the wisdom of our actions.

The reality of Cosmic Consciousness consists mostly of energy and love.

The First Light

The First Light and Darkness, the energy of creation, came out of formlessness and created everything that turns in the universe. Darkness and light create insight into stillness and movement. This insight or perception is the cause of living. The attracting and repelling occurrences in nature produce the effects in the environment. When the mind is hurtful and destructive, the qualities of Light can transform what has been dark! Through action nature passes to human vision, humanism through change passes to spiritual vision, and the social structure through discovery passes to Universal Vision. Darkness and Light are all over our world. Through self-discovery, the nature of Light and Darkness can appeal to the heart and mind to become one receptacle that is inclusive to the waves in nature. Thus, the power of Life has its recognition in the person who begins reflecting on the nature of existence.

Who am I? How did I come about? When did life start? What was the reason? Where am I going in life? What we call Life is just a series of events and circumstances formed by the mind in order to give meaning to our relationship with the outward appearance of the universe. ‘Who am I’ is the Life, the substance out of which creation started. It can be seen and unseen by the mind during its evolution. The energy of the universe forms life and is the cause of our existence, of space and all that exists in it. Life is everything from the grandest of objects in manifestation to the smallest of particles in their makeup: the tiny loops of vibrating energy strings. Life is the sum of the universe and all that is contained within it. Life is the flow of Light upon darkness. It is the intelligent use of the mind over matter in the working of things seen and unseen in nature. The hidden side of things keeps consciousness evolving. It is the true Self reflecting on its relationships among other forms, animal and human. It is the many dimensions of Spirit, the memory of our loved ones. Life is coming face to face with the One Self that guides us toward our Immortality. It is also more than this! Life came into existence out of each of us! It is the sum of you and me!

When you dream, see in those dreams exquisite forms upon on a wave of Light intended only for your destiny. When you dream of memory’s dream, the memory of the Self will awaken. It is a great prism of multi-colored circles formed around a great wheel of rotating fire. At the speed of light, this great power field weaves and turns. There is no passage of time here, only Diamond Consciousness expanding forever. Matter, Light and Life, the sum of human life, is but a fragment of something greater, seeking to return to its center of being. Peering into a glass of darkness, we slowly come face to face with the Light that opens our own window to the Soul. We each pass onward to greater dimensions of living. Beauty and splendor are all around us. They fly into our visions, and we touch this glory in a lofty moment, only to lose the contact and to sink back again into the dream of life of the First Light. The sights and smells of persons, places and things always share similarities. It not hard to imagine we have been here before. It is the when and how that is hard to pin down.

Our minds make up the world, the First Light of imagining.

Persons, Places and Things

Everywhere we go we leave parts of our Essence to flow over persons, places and things that make up our everyday life and world. We choose what we want to keep, agree upon, or discard. We choose the picture; we write the story in our minds about the meaning and the encounters of these people/places/things. What they mean and what we have learned from them forms our awareness of life. A person independently thinks and reacts from his/her own nature, has rights, and communicates feelings, expressions and mannerisms to others. Humans give meaning to places, which are a part of the earth’s surface, large or small. Our concept of things results from an action, abstraction, artifact, event, matter, a statement, an entity, self-existence, a feeling, or movable possessions.

Along with thoughts, we shape our lives from the interactions we have with persons, places and things. When we encounter distress, it is how we hold onto it that causes pain. We should not swim around in the murky waters of others. Instead, we should rely on the Good that we encounter. As to the events and circumstances of life and nature, we should always focus on what is pleasing. Where would we be without the bee making honey or the plant that bears our food season after season? Where would we be without thinking about the earth that gives us water and elements for our tools, or the sun that gives us vitality?

We base knowledge on the input we receive from our involvement and reactions to persons, places and things that enter our minds through the physical organs of sense. We enter life blank. The impressions that come before us are of a material nature and are always fleeting. Yet, the experiences we derive makeup our consciousness because the knowledge of sense objects and what we perceive as truth matches our impressions to persons/places/things. Awareness or sense impressions are always duplicating reality, imagination, dreams, or illusions. The sensations of duplication produce intense feelings and the conviction of our essential reality. Whatever image we encounter, the strength and vividness of it establishes the perception. What we have come to know is circular, inherent, latent and electrical. Always transmitting, reflecting and absorbing, this Essence permeates the visible with the invisible qualities of persons, places and things. This fine ether bathes all of us. Only our hearts feel how many persons we have spoken to, how many houses we have lived and congregated in, how many streets we have seen empty or filled.

We cannot wait for another person to hand us the key to the mysteries of life. We have to do it alone, one person at a time. We carry in us our own places of exile, our failures and our own negative effects. It is our duty to fight them in ourselves and not let them loose on the world. In this way, we become a friend to all living things.

Like a daily sunrise, all things take form through us and go beyond the earth as person, places, and things.

How We Create

Through the frictions of life, we create and come into existence. From early dawn, our consciousness has been slowly expanding from darkness into Light. Before we could differentiate, how could we say what was? We can only use our imaginations and produce working models of the cause that may or may not be true. What stirred awareness to be cognizant of things? Only by arriving at the end will we be able to grasp some shadows of the Beginning. For an imaginative person there are no beginnings or endings, only transformation. Pundits of the past and present have imagined much about Light and Life but have shed little insight on the causes of creation.

All any of us can do is realize that we are a part of the Cause of creation. We live and have our being within this Orb of Fire and Awareness. As we move around in this source of Light, we can strive to create and preserve the ideas that come from our imaginations, always moving from our lower beginnings to higher ones. Our current periodic table is the grail for human life. Everything in life begins from a combination of these elements. From the combustion chambers of human feeling, to the shaping of an axe handle, and onward to the creation of space technology, the Fire of friction forges these ideas into material reality.

What is the nature of our inner being and can we share it like the periodic elements? Imagination and memory access the inner world. Pictorially, the inner world of imagination and memory is similar to the outer world in shapes and thoughts. Does this Inner Being survive the breakup of the earthly body and the current definition of death? Do we really need proof that we exist now? If we do not need it now, why should we need proof of our existence when we die? Fire radiates and emulates, giving off and copying from itself. If the imagination faded out, would any of us know the specifics about what was? The Light of the heavens and the earth is the Essence of all existence, the mirror and the culmination of what we choose to sense and believe.

Lift the heart into the Light and let the mind be fearless when it is time to enter the Fire with our minds and hands. Define what it means to be imaginative in the periodicity of cycles. Just like the cells of the body, we are constantly renewing. Is it so difficult to imagine that the inner life does the same? There are elements still undiscovered in the living and forging process. The Wheel of Fire turns and so does the imagination.

This fiery circle encapsulates all that we have done. As we pass through the Fire, we can train our imaginations to learn the lessons needed so that we can stand complete.

The things we create come from the Fire of imagination. We can make them more lively or less.

What Kind of Image Do We Want to Become?

The process of training and developing knowledge, skill, character and the study of the methods, processes and effects of life start in the womb and end in the mind. All that exists, between the physical universe and our perception of it, is unfolded from within us. Fire can illuminate, deceive, or destroy our learned and inherited complexes. In order to know what is true, we must give the mind/brain methods in order to be active constructors of worldly order. Contrary to belief, the universe/world is not chaotic; our perceptions and actions make it seem that way.

To understand the true nature of Life we must first be aware of the energy that surrounds the natural order of life. Our minds create from the laws of matter, and matter forms the laws of mind. Whether we desire it or not, we create order and meaning out of the complexity of nature. The great thinkers from the past have constructed complex theories of order, yet we now recognize that those accepted ideas are inadequate. The earth is not the center of the universe; we are. Through our abilities and experiences, we are now just beginning to recognize that Universal Center in our hopes and neurological needs.

The invisible glow and warmth of electricity is all around. It fuels our sun and passes through our world, minds and bodies. We often have very little reverence for this power. We seem to want to reserve that reverence for the institutions and their experts, the secondary processes. Society subtly influences the mind to be overly submissive to the class structure. From childhood through adulthood, humans strive to find the meaning and importance of their space. We should attempt to understand what others are doing and saying without resorting to dangerous retaliation. Personal or institutional retribution is a learned tendency inculcated by others. The natural order of energy, the Fire of Life, is not interested in persuasion. This energy merely acts as a builder, a conserver and archetype of our thought processes and cultural inheritances. As receivers, assimilators and transmitters, we are the creators of that legacy.

To become true co-creators with this vast reservoir of living Essence is to absorb that which is benign. We must become the images we make ourselves into by becoming better listeners to the ideas of others. Otherwise, malignant acts set in and hateful attitudes influence the mind. We will enrich our relationships with the natural world and each other when we relate through a higher awareness of conscious thought rather than reacting to the influences of an unconscious immature secondary function. Secondary functions, such as institutions, are more creative when they serve the needs of the many in the ordering of world things.

The events and circumstances in which we find ourselves occur because of the thoughts we have formed. If those thoughts create positive attitudes, the expectations, pleasures, satisfactions and happiness envisioned will attract and create situations, people and events that conform to our positive outlook.

When our acts of creativity are the result of a highly developed purpose, then the world advances through those principles.

What Kind of House Do We Live In and Upon?

With the discovery of electricity, the human species has harnessed, to some extent, the vast electromagnetic field that surrounds the Principles of creation. As we advance, one window of the mind closes and another opens. We are an adaptable species in the utilization of earthly resources, almost on par with breathing air into the lungs. Gradually we are adapting responsibly to the daily use of these precious resources. The vast reservoir of human knowledge can now be down loaded on streets of silicone chips. Our cities resemble huge motherboards to roam around in, and the inside of our houses bears a resemblance to the inner workings of our bodies.

The fiery essence of technology is fanning the flames of the Infinite. This energy enables the mind, bit by bit, to boost its frequency automatically and enhances its overall knowledge by intelligently participating in the changes occurring on earth. Through thinking and feeling (the freedom of decision or of choice between alternatives), the personal mind consumes the positive/negative occurrences within its atmosphere and reacts by cleansing or contaminating itself. Both of these reactions make up the patterns associated with the atmospheric and ground changes of earth. Personally and universally, there is a symbiotic relationship and a metamorphosis on all levels between all humans and the earth.

The Essence of transformation speaks through birth, youth and maturity. At birth, we are vessels of innocence dependant on others for our security and health. In youth, we are rebellious and spontaneous. In our mature years, we are more reflective of what was and is. Existence has two faces: 1) the gentle side of warmth and love that gives energy, life and passion, 2) the hurtful, wild, indifferent side that has an unsatisfied appetite. This destructive side tears down anything that stands in its way of gain and scars those who survive its passion. A well-prepared mind is attracted by the Fiery Essence, knows or dreams what it can do, and begins it. The principles by which we form choices establish the kind of relationship that will evolve between Fire and life. If we turn our minds toward this Fiery Essence, then the Infinite Energy of Life and all the possibilities of growth will exercise its creation through our imaginations and will. New art, new science, new philosophies, better governments and higher civilizations wait in this ring of Causality. The earth is the beginning and the fullness thereof. From then on, the boldness, power and magic of the laws of nature and the choices we make will give us the kind of house in which we want to live.

What is nature but the transformation of matter/spirit (ether, air, fire, water and earth) into the mind, intellect and ego?

Through the Light of the Mind, We See our Lives

The sunny side of our bodily existence starts surfacing when we think and understand that healthy optimism relates to mental and physical health and success. When it comes to the future, it is far better to be optimistic than pessimistic. Humans expect positive events even when there is no evidence to support such expectations. The brain is a watery, fat, protein-based receiver that converts light and sound into the persons, places and things perceived. Soft and fragile, the brain records who we are, where we have been, and where we will go in our future consciousness. When we sense the brain as being the intelligent camera of our actions, then we are thinking smart and developing our true potential. To make it easy, fill the brain with optimism about the future of life on earth. The sun, the earth and the brain are as much a part of each other as our thinking is to the recognition of our awareness. Everything in the universe is information and all of us can tap into that Invisible knowledge.

We are all participants with the substance that fuels the universe. It is possible to synthesize all the elements of the universe as one whole and look at the form with the mind. In our ongoing currents of thinking, we come to understand the elusive aspects of the mind by removing irrational thoughts. We are all greater than the sum of our individual effects and capabilities, but we are in denial about it. When we start producing pleasing effects in the brain, object recognition will result in a brighter environment. Imagination and imagery have great power to convey information and arouse a sense of excitement. We might even move atoms and molecules around. If we can do it physically, we can do it mentally, even reshape our emotional imagery to take away sadness. Regarding society, we need images that tell a story in a compelling way that instill hope in the future. This will give all humans a purpose for being a part of the intelligent mirror. Our images can go beyond the bounds of logical thinking that is inherent in science. Imagery